REDD STEWART
I REMEMBER
I Remember/Bimbo/Having Second Thoughts/Sunshine Over The Hill/My Home Is The Dust Of The Road/Tennessee Waltz/Banjo/Dreaming Again/Cold, Cold, Heart/Talk To The Angels/Bonaparte's Retreat
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The name of Redd Stewart will always be inextricably linked with bandleader Pee Wee King with whom he featured as main vocalist. They also composed hit songs together: in 1947 Stewart and King wrote Bonaparte's Retreat, which was recorded by Kay Starr and acted as the springboard for her successful career. The following year the pair collaborated again, this time on Tennessee Waltz, which became Patti Page's big crossover hit and years later was adopted as the official state song for Tennessee.
The pair also scored a number of hits for themselves as artists, including Slow Poke, and they gave Jo Stafford's career a major boost when she recorded their composition, You Belong To Me, a song covered by many artists in the years that followed, including Patsy Cline. Small wonder that Redd Stewart was inducted into Nashville's Songwriter Hall Of Fame. He continued to write and perform with Pee Wee King well into the 1960's.
Redd, who died in August 2003, was a smooth crooner, and this collection, thoughtfully copiled by his son Billy, serves as a good introduction to his style. The title track, a gentle reflection on days gone by, was written by Redd in 1974. Other Stewart originals are Sunshine Over The Hill, Dreaming Again and the somewhat maudlin Talk To The Angels.
Two of his big hits, Bonaparte's Retreat and Tennessee Waltz are included, and it is interesting to hear these familiar classics, both of which have been revived time and again through the years, sung by the man who wrote them in 1947 and 48' respectively.
Redd's version of Hank Williams' Cold, Cold Heart is creditable, although less convincing is Fred Rose's My Home Is The Dust Of The Road which, like Sunshine Over The Hill, may have been much in vogue years ago, but their level of self pity, when set against the breezy Bimbo and Eddy Raven's Banjo, sounds incongruous today.
As a performer, Redd Stewart has tended to be overlooked, so this is a fitting collection to remind us of his silken, easy on the ear voice. (www.reddstewart.com)
Craig Baguley, Editor
February 2005
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